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From: greg@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Gregory Nowak)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: sci.philosophy.objectivism
Keywords: Objectivism, Rand, newsgroup, philosophy
Message-ID: <12987@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 17 Jan 90 02:07:16 GMT
References: <9001162348.AA11695@apee.ogi.edu>
Reply-To: greg@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Gregory Nowak)
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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In article <9001162348.AA11695@apee.ogi.edu> mehuld@apee.ogi.edu (Mehul Dave) writes:
}Greg Nowak suggests that objectivists should use sci.philosophy.meta
}because it is unused right now and would be ideal instead of creating
}sci.philosophy.objectivism.  The reason why it would not be proper to
}use sci.philosophy.meta is because it is not exclusively for discussing
}Objectivism. 

THANK YOU. This is a perfect explanation of why objectivist postings
don't belong in sci.philosophy.tech. Please explain this to R.W.
Stubblefield; perhaps he will accept this coming from a fellow
objectivist. As of now he has refused to discuss the issue, and has
decided for himself that his postings are appropriate there.

}A newsgroup for discussing Objectivism, the philsophy of
}Ayn Rand, is what is needed.  Of course, if sci.philosophy.meta was to
}be renamed to sci.philsophy.objectivism, it would be all right but then
}there have been some discussions in sci.philosophy.meta and I doubt if
}the posters there would be willing to lose that newsgroup.

There is almost no activity there; the only articles I found in its
spool directory were those in the widely-crossposted "proving programs
correct" thread. Of course, the story you tell is exactly the case
with sci.philosophy.tech, an active newsgroup which has been invaded
by inappropriate objectivist postings, mainly coming from RW Stubblefield.
 

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                           Greg Nowak/Phoenix Gang/Princeton NJ 08540